Sigmund Freud perhaps popularised Psychology far more than anyone since. Images of him are seen in everything from Psychology Text books, to Bacardi adverts. He was born in 1856 in Frieberg, Moravia. When he was four years old his family moved to Vienna. When Freud was eight years old, he was reading Shakespeare and, during his adolescence, hearing a lecture about Goethe's essay on nature impressed him deeply and influenced his choice of career (which was originally to be law). He completed his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1881. His medical career began with an apprenticeship in 1885 to 1886 under J. M. Charcot in Paris. Once he returned to Vienna he began collaborating with Josef Breuer. Together they discussed the use of hypnosis in the treatment of hysteria the ideas of which they published in a paper entitiled 'On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena' released in 1893. Use the buttons on the right to navigate Freud page 1 If you wish to use a very large text size Click Me to turn off the background image  Return to Gerard Keegan's Psychology Site :: Return to Biography index The image used to develop the background for this biography is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Freud_Sofa.JPG for the original and a copy of the license.